Three nice plugins to have
Posted by: Luke in wordpress, tags: dashboard, internet, magic, mitcho, rate tracker, search engines, startling discovery, wordpress, wordpress-pluginsRecently I found this nifty plugin called Crawl Rate Tracker. It works like magic! The link to see the crawls being tracked is right there on your dashboard, which I find highly convenient. I highly recommend installing this one.
Also, the related post plugin is another handy plugin that can make a big difference in how your links are crawled and indexed by search engines. As Court explains,
Google likes to see a good amount of internal linking in your site. The reasoning behind this is very simple; if there are a lot of internal links in the site, it will be easier for the user to navigate around. For this reason, Google will reward you for having a lot of internal links.
A further plugin that is essential for SEO purposes is Google XML Sitemaps Generator. Although it had a few errors the first time it tried making a sitemap for 10kluke.info, the second time it worked just fine.
For some more nifty plugins, try 8 WordPress Plugins You Must Have For Your WordPress Blog over on OIBO.
Since installing all three of these plugins, my main index has been crawled 21 times, and several other pages have been crawled 4 times. It is very exciting to watch!
Related posts:
March 22nd, 2008 at 1:26 pm - Edit
I didn’t know about the Crawl Rate Tracker plugin. It seems interesting, and a must have.
March 22nd, 2008 at 1:38 pm - Edit
Thanks for stopping by, Simmone. Welcome
Crawl Rate Tracker is awesome… And the number is now 24! I’ve been crawled three times since last night when I entered that!
March 24th, 2008 at 3:56 pm - Edit
I’m definitely going to have to install the “crawl rate tracker”. Being a new blog it’s essential to see how things are progressing with SEO. I’ll have to try out the XML Sitemap generator too. I have the RS Sitemap installed, but I don’t like how it formats. Can you customize the display on the XML version?
BTW…thanks for commenting on my post about Web Development Tools. Thanks!
March 24th, 2008 at 4:53 pm - Edit
Thank you for the comment as well, Bryan. I love to comment on every interesting blog I can possibly find. It’s the single greatest way to get interest and traffic that I have found so far. Crawl Rate Tracker is really a great tool. I’m up to 37 crawls today.
I’m pretty sure the Google sitemap generator can be customized. There’s an option for a custom XSLT stylesheet in the advanced section.
March 25th, 2008 at 12:37 pm - Edit
I wanted to add something to this post Luke. Upon installing the crawl rate tracker I had to modify the robots.txt file because it was disallowing all crawlers access to my site
March 25th, 2008 at 3:21 pm - Edit
Gosh, I forgot to mention that. I can’t remember where I read to do it, but that is one thing I did, replace the robots.txt. Thank you for bringing that up Brian.